Toward an Integrated Plan for Digital Preservation and Access to Primary Anthropological Data (AnthroDataDPA): A Four-Field Workshop

该奖项支持制定一项全面的计划，以数字保存和获取主要人类学数据，包括田野笔记、照片、测量和记录。目标是制定一个战略性和协调性的计划，其中包括数字化的方法和标准、数字对象的长期保存、道德标准和档案间互操作性。如果没有协调的计划，数字访问的承诺将无法实现。该项目的第一步是举办一次由档案管理员、人类学家和技术专家组成的基础广泛的研讨会，以决定原始人类学数据战略综合计划的基础知识。第二步是分发计划大纲，充实细节，并在网上发布修订后的计划。第三步是与主要人类学组织和从事或规划数字和保护活动的组织联络，鼓励他们加入这一综合努力。研讨会与会者还将讨论资助未来工作的实际方法。数据保存和共享是所有研究的核心。数字时代和网络为人类学研究人员提供了共享研究材料的新机会，包括对已不复存在的民族和文化的独特第一手资料，以及其他人无法获得的资料，因为它们位于人类学家的办公室、文件柜、计算机、实验室或访问受限的存储库中。数据共享取决于研究数据的保存。很多时候，原始人类学数据随着收集者的患病或死亡而在学术界丢失。这是研究投资潜在长期利益的损失，也是不可替代数据的损失。保存和获取世界各地人类生活的观察结果不仅对人类学和其他社会科学很重要。公众对了解人类状况的各个方面有着浓厚的兴趣。图书馆、档案馆、知识库和信息技术专家应该对数字保存和访问协调计划的制定感兴趣，并且可以作为其他学科保存和访问计划的模型。

This award supports the creation of a comprehensive plan for digital preservation and access for primary anthropological data, including fieldnotes, photographs, measurements, and recordings. The goal is a strategic and coordinated plan that includes methods and standards for digitization, long-term preservation of digital objects, ethical standards, and inter-archive interoperability. Without a coordinated plan, the promise of digital access will not be achieved.The first step in this project to hold a broad-based workshop of archivists, anthropologists, and technology specialists to decide on the basics of a strategic integrated plan for primary anthropological data. The second step is to circulate the plan outline, flesh out the details, and disseminate a revised plan on the web. The third step is to liaison with major anthropological organizations and organizations engaged in or planning digital and preservation activities to encourage them to join this integrated effort. The workshop conferees will also discuss practical ways to fund future efforts.Data preservation and sharing are central to all research. The digital age and the web have given anthropological researchers new opportunities for sharing research materials, including unique firsthand accounts of peoples and cultures that no longer exist, accounts unavailable to others because they reside in anthropologists' offices, file cabinets, computers, laboratories, or in limited access repositories. Data sharing depends upon research data being preserved. All too often, primary anthropological data are lost to the scholarly world with the illness or death of the person who collected them. This is a loss of potential long-term benefit from research investment as well as loss of irreplaceable data.Preservation and access to the observations of human life around the world are not just important for anthropology and other social sciences. The public has a strong interest in understanding all aspects of the human condition. The development of a coordinated plan for digital preservation and access should be of interest to libraries, archives, repositories, and information technology specialists and may serve as a model for preservation and access programs in other disciplines.